La Dolce Camille is on a roll:
Given that Obama had served on a Chicago board with Ayers and approved funding of a leftist educational project sponsored by Ayers, one might think that the unrepentant Ayers-Dohrn couple might be of some interest to the national media. But no, reporters have been too busy playing mini-badminton with every random spitball about Sarah Palin, who has been subjected to an atrocious and at times delusional level of defamation merely because she has the temerity to hold pro-life views.How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the State University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don't know their asses from their elbows.
Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology -- contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.
"Plush, pampered commodes of received opinion." That's the sound of the mistress's whip cracking. Read the whole thing.
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I am so very angered at the idea that liberals don't like Palin because she is pro-life. As a pro-life Democrat, that is about the only thing I like about Palin. Well, that and her hunting skills. I have the deepest respect for those who could provide for themselves and their families should the centralized food web break down.
While I acknowledge that some liberal Democrats, particularly of the feminist persuasion, call rather too much attention to the supposed incongruence of Palin's pro-life stance with her admission that she had an amnio, or her support for abstinence-only education with her daughter's pregnancy, I myself can not get beyond her boundless resentment towards anyone with non-material aspirations, and her prideful ignorance. I think I am far from alone in this.
The idea that she is reviled because she made the choice to give birth to a baby with Down's in an invention of the right wing nuttery.
And when McCain gave his list of reasons for choosing Palin, did he say that he thought she would be the best Commander in Chief for the war in Iraq, an engagement that was the core platform of his campaign, should need be?
No, let's hope the 'evil genie' doesn't go into the bottle again. we the dire economic situation compliments of the Bush debacle, we need all the laughs we can have. And she, Palin, while not even remotely funny herself, manages to make us laugh, uproariously laugh, each time she opens her mouth.
"I want to restore the credence and credibility of the media"....her long and meandering paragraphs. her excuses for her total ignorance of our own government and country. No, keep her out of the bottle or the box, we need the entertainment! Can't wait for another interview! and in a few weeks her wayward daughter will give birth making her a grandmother....if the baby is half black....will we be told? maybe so, that way she can try to get the Black vote. Can't wait...with McCain out of the picture we need more material, so do the TV writers and comedians.
Very erudite commentary
Gail
Camille Paglia is overdrawn on her 15 minutes of fame. The contrarian academic as rock star shtick is wearing thin.
We've had eight years of dumb-is-beautiful and education-is-elitist politics. It's merely set this country up for the current economic crisis.
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